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Silicon Valley Bank Failure – Lessons in Interest Rate Risk Management

South State Correspondent

While we will cover the general lessons HERE , in this article, we wanted to focus on the root cause – how and why interest rate risk caused the second-largest bank failure in US history (Washington Mutual was the largest in 2008). Equally important is the bank’s securities duration, as shown in the graph below.

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Cyberattacks, Google Crash Bring Internet Security Into Question

PYMNTS

At a time when our nation’s secrets at the NSA and Homeland Security and assets at the Department of the Treasury were able to be illicitly tapped into by foreign hackers, the security and reliability of countless other online industries and enterprises have also been brought into question.

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State Regulation, Conference of State Bank Supervisors, Financial Services, FinTech, Charles Clark, Washington State Department of Financial Institutions, License, Regulation, Bank of Indonesia, FinTech, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, News

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Through the Conference of State Bank Supervisors, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Texas, Tennessee and Washington are looking to standardize the ways firms across traditional financial services and FinTech upstarts apply for, and are granted, licenses. The central bank is also conducting a study on issuing digital currency.

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The Long Bull Market Comes to an End in the First Quarter

TrustBank

Absolute return, or our risk management strategies, helped to reduce the decline in portfolios. Equity market neutral was down 5.2%, global macro was down 6.4%, and managed futures produced a positive 3.3% All along the curve, yields declined more than one percentage point from their already low levels.

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Five tech trends to set banks apart in the post-digital era

Accenture

African-American inventor, scientist and botanist George Washington Carver, summed it up like this: “When you do the common things in an uncommon way, you’ll command the attention of the world.” Late 19th century American farmers, threatened by industrialisation, had to use new tools and techniques to innovate and survive.

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B2B FinTech Firms Brace For Growth With New VC

PYMNTS

Growth of FinTech funding seems unstoppable, with the latest analysis from Hampleton Partners finding enterprise financial services and integration, online financial services, enterprise financial software and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) risk management as some of the hottest spots for investors this year.

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Capital Market Assumptions

TrustBank

Our risk management strategies provided the cushions we had expected during the market’s decline in 2020, with returns independent of the returns from both stocks and bonds. The views or opinions in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of Washington Trust Bank or senior management.

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